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Grand Canal Debt. 6 per cent BE Ditto, 4 per cent — Hibernian Bank — City of DuWin Steam Co. National Insurance Co -- City Debentures, 4 per cent — Ballast Office Debentures, 4 Per cent — MAILS. Arrived. Due.l Arrived. Due.) 0 America 0 2 Fr a nc e I ' 0 Brazil 0 0 Guam. & Jersey (i 0 Buenos Ayres 0 1 0 Hamburg ..... ... 1 n Carthasena ...•• 0 0 Holland ...,.. 2 0 Dublin... 2 Flanders ... 0 0 Leeward Islands 1 A:rtived. Due. (1 Lisbon 1 0 Malta 0 Mexico 0 0 Ostend 0 0 Sweden 0 0 Waterford 1 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. M0rning........,2u minutes after 8. t Evening 45 minutes after 8. TRE NEW COMIC PERIODICAL WORK. EBITED BY BOZ, AND ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. Now ready, No. 1., (to be continued Monthly), price 2s. 6d., em bellished with a Portrait of George Colman the Younger, en graved by Greatbach, from a Painting by Jackson, and Humourous Illustrations by George Cruikshank and Samuel Lover, of BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. EDITED BY BOZ, And ILLUSTRATED by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. • CONTENTS. Song of the Month, by Father Handy Andy, by Samuel Lover Prout Old Age and Youth, by T. Haynes Prologue byDr. Maginn—Open- Bayly ing Chaunt An Evening of Visits, by J. Fe- Recollections of George Colman, nimore Cooper, Author of the by Theodore Hook " Pilot" The " Monstre " Balloon Who are you ? by Metastasio Legend of Manor Hall, by the Fontenelle and Samuel Lover Author of " Headlong Hall" Metropolitan Men of Science Terence O'Shaughnesey, by the Kyan's Patent Author of " Stories of Wa- The Original of " Not a drum terloo" was heard," by Father Prout The Sabine Farmer's Serenade, A Gossip with some old English by Father Prout Poets—C. Oilier Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble, The RisingPeriodical—Mr. Ver by " 4 Boz" dant's account of the last Xrial Ode to Rum Punch, by Father Ascent, by T. Haynes Bayly Prout An Italian Anecdote, by the The Marine Ghost, by the A u - A u th or o f" H a jji B a b a ' , thor of " Rattlin the Reefer" Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. Orders received by all Booksellers. HAMBURGH, DEC. 12. ON approach of the COMMENCEMENT o f JANUARY, all those who may have to write to us before that time, are requested to do so without delay, and to be particular in directing, HEINE BROTHERS, in HAMBURGH, and to observe, that a letter with one inclosure doubles the Postage only, but several inclosures would by far increase t:ne same. Thus 10/., 9.0/., or 30/., for instance, if remitted in One Bank of Eng land Note would only cause double Postage, but 10/. remitted in two notes, would be liable to a much higher charge. It is there fore most advisable, for any Person having to remit Money to Ham burgh, to forward the amount in One Ne.,te ; or having to receive Money from Hamburgh, to receive tb.e same in One Note, when ever possible. Of course remittance :4 from Hamburgh to England, surpassing the usual amount of One Bank of England Note, may rather be made in Bills of Exchange, on London. We request not to overloJk these particulars. HEINE,: BROTHERS in HAMBURGH. P. S. To persons havinr , to remit Si., on receiving a Ten Pound Note, we return Two Pound in the cheapest way possible. The publication of 'THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at tO minutes past Three o'clock. 4*,' • _ 7,44 t ft ' :2 fN i ,;" LONDON, SATURDAY EANING, DECEMBER 31, 1836. The year 1836 is now fast drawing to a close, and notwithstanding the many disappointments they have experienced, leaves the Reformers in a far better con dition than they were in at its commencement. On the Ist of January last, the Ballot and Peerage Reform were, comparatively speaking, in their nonage ; now, they have all but attained a fall and perfect growth. At that period, they were the wish of the few ; now, they are the determination of the many. As regards Ireland, the progress, is equally satisfactory. True, she has for the time, lost her Municipal Reform ; but what is the consequence ? Why, just this—that she has since acquired a strength—a unanimity--ex hibited a fixedness of purpose, that in the ensuing Session will enable her to demand and obtain a greater measure of . Municipal justice than that of which she has been deprived. If we had nothing more in the proceedings of the late Ses sion to congratulate ourselves upon, we should find ample materials for congratulation in Lord LYNDHURST'S application of the word " alien" to Ireland. It has roused that kingdom from one ex tremity to the other ; and by making it feel its de gradation, has supplied it with a fitting instrument for its regeneration. Till now, Ireland has had tr d t too much reason to doubt, and it may be, to despair ; but now she has only to be determined, to conquer. Her fate now is in her own hands--.thanks to that phrase of Lord LYNDIIURST, wh;:e:h he fondly hoped would become a bye-word and a mockery against her. And 'now stands the account as respects England ? She has had Bill after Bill rejected by the House of Lords—the Post-.offi , - e Bill—the Imprisonment for Debt Bill—aid lieaven knows how many other Bills ! — Yet st ; :a she is progressing, and progressing too, just ire proportion to the severity of the disappoint 111.'ents she has experienced. The experience of the Jast Session has had the effect of giving her a clearer view of her own interests than she has ever yet had. She can now discriminate between her real well wisbers and her sham well-wishers ; between a specious Tory Manifesto-monger, and a Reformer of the firmness and sincerity of Lord MEL BOURNE. So far, therefore, are we from con idering that the year, whose dirge will be rung to night, has produced us naught but ill, that we affirm unhesitatingly it has produced us naught but good. It has convinced us of the necessity of Peerage Re form, and wrought in us a determination to obtain it. It has proved to us that the Tories are incorrigible, and confirmed us in our resolution to extinguish them. Above all, it has taught us to know our strength, and to bide our time. Is this nothing ? " Then is Bohemia nothing." What the next year will produce, it is im possible for us at this period to predict. But might we hazard an opinion, we should say that it would reap the harvest, the seeds of which the present year has sown ; that it will bring Reformer and anti-Re former face to face in a position from which there can be no retreating, without the utter overthrow of one or the other party ; and that the defeated troops will not be those of the Reformers. But more than this —it will place the Dissenters on :AA high vantage ground ; give such an impulse to the stirring eneruiPc' of Ireland, and of the that neither '.i . igh-minded C;Jurt ilistruct„ ' a c tcoicn Liberals, Dk- stair influence, nor Corse; cative intrigue, will be able to prevail against them. As we look back to the old year with sa tisfaction, so we look forward to the new one with confidence. It can abridge none of our 1 rights—it cannot keep Reform stationary—it must, therefore, conduce to the improvement of our position. But how will it be with the Tories ? Alas, to them the future holds out a most chilling prospect ; they have no hope, for their's is the old age that sees nought but a grave in the distance. Just as we progress, must they retrograde; just as we conquer, must they be de : feated ; what is life to us, is death to them ; what fills us with rejoicing, fills them with lamentation. They are a doomed faction, and who shall say how many of them will politically survive to welcome the advent of eighteen hundred and thirty eight ? The speech of his Majesty the King of the FRENCH, on opening the Legislative Chambers on Tuesday, is scarcely noticed in the Paris Journals of the day following. Comments upon it would be pre mature, as the attempt to assassinate the KING en tirely absorbs public attention. The Siecle alone treats the Royal speech as a curious manifestation of Ministerial optimism. The great philosopher Square, so intimately acquainted with the principles of the " moral fitness of things," was but a novice compared with such masters of the science of optimism as MOLE, GUIZOT, PERSIL, and MARTIN DU NORD. Who but a Member of the Mole Administration could dis cover in the desolating progress of the civil war in Spain—in the defeat of the French before Constantine —in the two attempts to murder the KlNG—and in the two attempts at a military insurrection at Ven dome and Strasburg—the confirmation of the as sertion made by the KING, in his speech to the Chambers—namely, that " the institutions of the country are becoming strengthened, and that, her prosperity is increasing ?" With an army in which General officers are to be found ready to raise the standard of rebellion—with cities in which famine is now making frightful ravages—with a working popu lation in a state bordering on absolute destitution— with the daily spectacle of plots discovered and assas sinations attempted before her eyes ; we are as a loss to perceive where France finds objects for self-con gratulation on the growing strength of her institutions, and the mighty increase of her prosperity. The few other Paris journals which notice the KING'S speech condemn the spirit of egotism in which it is conceived. They are right. Such expressions as " I applaud myself for having preserved France from sacrifices the extent of which cannot be appre ciated," ought not to be put in the mouth of a con stitutional KING. They but multiply the number of his enemies, by confirming the impression that he seeks to govern by his will alone, without the inter vention of a Cabinet. The assassin's name is reported to be MEURIER. His father is a coachmaker at La Villette, in the vi cinity of Paris. He will be tried by the Chamber of Peers, in the same manner as was FIESCHI. The de claration of ALIBAUD, respecting the twenty-four as sassins who had mutually bound themselves to devote their lives to the ridding France of the citizen KING, is now remembered with apprehension. The laws of Sep tember have signally failed in the repression of attempts upon the life of the KING. It is, however, reported that Ministers will immediately proceed to strengthen them by severer enactments. At the very instant the crime was first whispered in the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday, M. GUIZOT suddenly exclaimed, in the hearing of a great number of Deputies and strangers, " Who will now offer to disarm the Government ?" This startling query implied a determination not to be misunderstood. The Temps, the Constitutionnel, and the Courrier Francais, all mention the stringent sys tem of policy about to be recommended by Ministers in terms of strong disapprobation. The Chambers are now in a state of loyal intoxication. To take advan tage of their inebrious devotion to the Royal Family would be only to expose them to the contempt, not only of France, but of Europe ; and, what is more, treble the dangers that now threaten the KING'S life. The Paris Papers of Wednesday regard the capture of Bilboa by the Carlists as highly improbable. The letters direct from Bilboa are to the 22d instant, when ESPARTERO had again re-crossed the Nervion, along the right bank •of which he was preparing to force a passage to Bilboa. There is no bridge over the Asua, but as the river is neither broad nor deep Es- PARTERO spoke with confidence of the facility with which he could cross it. EGUIA and VILLAREAL were preparing to oppose him with their united forces. On the 20th GomEz attended a Council of War be fore Bilboa, presided over by the Infante Don SE BASTIAN, and immediately afterwards proceeded to join his troops at Orduna. The following observations respecting Bilboa are from the French journal La Pais of Wednesday : Notwithstanding all the reports spread by the Carlist party, the works for the siege of Bilboa do not advance, and there is no reason to believe that the inhabitants of that heroic city are more closely pressed. The want of positive information hind ers us f rom j u d g i ng i mpar tially of the operations of General Espartero. A steam-boat of the Royal Navy of England has arrived at St. Sebastian from London, with twenty thousand muskets for the Spa nish Government. It is said that fifty thousand piastres hav e been paid to Espartero's army. There is every appearance that the war in Spain, con fined to the ancient insurgent provinces, will be more active and more sanguinary. The Ebro, which has been crossed three times without any result, will not be again passed by Generals who have not been able to maintain their ground, on the other side, and who retire more like fugitives than conquerors. Letters from San Sebastian to the 21st, and from Madrid to the same date, have likewise been received. Their contents are unimportant. Brussels and German papers have been received, the former to the 28th, and the latter to the 25th inst., with advices from the frontiers of Poland to the 15th. The communication between Brussels and Antwerp was interrupted by the snow storm ; and at Amsterdam the hurricanes which accompanied the first fall of snow did considerable damage. Two English mails were due. In Warsaw several arrests of young men have lately taken place, by order of the -Russian Government. A commercial traveller in that city at the time narrowly escaped a journey to Siberia, by making the best of his way across the frontier. The CZAR has given strict orders to punish as the greatest crime, the expression of sympathy for the fate of Poland. BELGIAN } UNDS—BaussaLs, DEC. 28 Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. lOO% Loan of Thirty Millions 94 Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent. lOl Society of Commerce, 4 %per Cent 143 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 134 Brussels Papers, Dec. 29. DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, DEe. 27. Actual Debt, 2), per Cent. Do do. 5 per Cent. Amort Syndic 4% per Cent., Do. do. 3% per Cent. Commercial Company, 4% per Cent lBl% New ditto — —Journal du Commerce d'Anvers, Dec. 29. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.+VIENNA, DEC. 20. Five per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares 1394 --"lilgenteine Zeitung, Dec.:2s. Dr. Camidge gave. the third concert of the season on Tuesday ; Miss Bruce was the chief attraction. The various songs allotted to her were performed by her in a superior style. They were—" Hide me from Day's garish eye," by Handel ; Mozart's " Dove Sono," and " Kate Kearney." In this sweet Irish ballad Miss Bruce was encored, and sung it delightfully. The concert was extremely well At tended.—Yorkshire Gazette. THE STUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1536 ODE TO SIR ROBERT PEEL. LITERATURE. JIM CROW loquitur. LITTLE TALES FOR LITTLE HEADS, FLORAL SKETCHES, &c. c . E. Wilson, :London, 1836, These are clever children's books, got up taste, at small expense, printed in a handsome large ' anu containing a choice variety of appropriate embellishments. Never mind how the captious Conservative flats Indulge in small sneers at apostates and rats, 'Tis yours, or I greatly mistake you. Bol ! F ze l , To go wriggling from 1. "" So turn al , " ~cy to Whig like an -Leel -twist about—do just so; i ß t e nd th y e ou v l i l ea s r oo o n f m n a r k a ye,asgtj - row I give your a we hit icOming shouts To the sunshiny INS, and your sneers to the OUTS ; Never stick at a trifle, but swim with the stream ; If Reform be the fashion, let that be your theme— Yes; turn about—twist about—do just so ; And you'll soon make as famous a hit as Jim Crow ! As for Glasgow, friend Bob, if you'll take my advice, You'll cut that connection, and bolt in a trice ; For the Scotch are a quick-witted race, and no doubt, Like the Glasgow Town Council, will soon find you out— So turn about—twist about—do just so ; And you'll soon make as famous a hit as Jim Crow ! Consistency's good, but tis better to shy it, So long as one cannot get anything by it, And yours, my dear Bob, is so small in amount, 'Tis the very last thing you can turn to account— Then turn about—twist about—do just so ; And you'll soon make as famous a hit as Jim Crow I THE DUKE OF MON ill tl UTH. 3 Vols. 1 Bentley, London, 1836. The period to which this tale refers is that of the I early portion of the reign of James the Second, when the well known insurrection of the Duke of Monmouth deluged the West of England with blood. Of course, the Duke is one of the most prominent personages of the narrative, and is pourtraycd with scrupulous re gard to the truth of history, the author representing him just as he really was, a treacherous, weak-minded, yet ambitious profligate, desirous to obtain the reputa tion of a hero, with no more talent than just qualified him to shine as an agreeable lady's man in the Court circles of Charles the Second. Had Monmouth or his advisers possessed sagacity and moral courage equal to their ambition, they might have hurled James from his throne ; for the West of England, and no slight portion of Scotland, of the influential citizens of London, and of the Midland Counties, were in their favour, so great was the distrust of the ruling monarch, for his known bigotted attachment to Ca tholicism. But instead of availing himself promptly and vigorously of these advantages, Monmouth pre ferred to fritter his time away, in idle parade, among the Western towns, the consequence of which was, that James was enabled to gather together a small body of disciplined troops, who, under Kirke and Feversham, annihilated the rebels on the bloody field of Sedgmoor. A stirring period like this, is well calculated for the dis play of the powers of the novelist, and the author has accordingly, as far as in him lies, availed himself of his opportunities. There is no deficiency of character or incident in his story ; its chief defect is a want of vigor and earnestness in those scenes which are meant to be the most dramatic and impassioned. He has drawn Monmouth admirably ; the old cavalier, Cap tain Kingsley, is also painted to the life ; but he has failed sadly in his attempt to pourtray the Flora Mac- Ivor like character of Aquila Fullerton, which is cold and formal throughout, though intended to be impreg nated with the profoundest enthusiasm and sensibility. Colonel Kirke is better ; indeed, we may say, be is the best sustained character in the tale, with the excep tion, perhaps, of Lord Grey, whom, however, the author only gives us in sketch. Go, put on your smoothest political face, And kneel at the feet of the Whigs for a place, But should they reject you as one of their cads, Then turn again, Bobby, and fly to the Rads Yes, turn about—'twist about—do just so ; And you'll soon make as famous a hit as Jim Crow ! Yes, fly to the Rads, and give out that the snow, Has prevented your joining their party 'till now ; Toast " Peerage Reform " o'er a stiff glass of grog, Shout " Feargus for ever," and go tho whole hog ! Yes, turn about—twist about—do just so ; And you'll soon make as famous a hit as Jim Crow ! In the quantity and quality of its articles on practi cally useful subjects, the Dublin Review stands as high as any of its quarterly Contemporaries. In the comprehensiveness of its political views, and the vigour of its style, the generality of its readers will find much to admire—much from which information may be drawn, capable of being employed in promoting social happiness, by destroying the ignorant prejudices of the people. But, as a whole, it is heavy, and to some extent uninviting. It addresses itself too exclusively to the man-of-business class of readers, and to theolo gians—a body of men much more noisy and trouble some, than remarkable for their clear insight into the affairs, either of this world or the next. What we com plain of is the absence of stirring criticisms on works of art and imagination—not a string of stale common places, but vivid sketches capable of awakening genius from its lethargy, and calculated to inspire the people with a love of the beautiful and the good. In the pre sent Number there are three articles on works of' the imagination—namely, the " Reviews of the Literature of the Aristocracy of Rank and Genius ;" of " Cha teaubriand's Sketches of English Literature ;" and of the "Life and Writings of the late Felicia Hemans" ; but of these articles the last mentioned is the only one worthy of the columns in which it appears. The Re viewer administers a severe but well-merited correction to Mrs. Hemans' biographer, Mr. Chorley, who, in his life of the poetess, has not scrupled to publish let ters which no sincere friend to the memory of that lady would desire to see in print. The extracts from her works display taste and judgment; and the Reviewer's estimate of her genius is formed upon the most care ful perusal of the whole of her published poems. We cannot resist the temptation to quote the fol lowing exquisite lines, notwithstanding the Reviewer's objection to the gloomy spirit which pervades them : THE REVELLERS. " Ring, joyous chords 1 ring out again 1 A swifter, still, and a wilder strain 1 They are here—the fair face and the careless heart, And stars shall wane ere the mirthful part. —But I met a dimly mournful glance, In a sudden turn of the flying dance 1 I heard the tone of a heavy sigh, In a pause of the thrilling melody ! And it is not well that woe should breathe On the bright spring-flowers of the festal wreath. —Ye that to thought or to grief belong, Leave—leave the hall of song ! " Ring, joyous chords I—but who art thou, With the shadowy locks o'er thy pale young brow, And the world of dreamy gloom that lies In the misty depths of thy soft dark eyes? —Thou hast loved, fair girl ! thou has loved too well ! Thou art mourning now o'er a broken spell ; Thou hest poured thy heart's rich treasures forth, And art unrepaid for their priceless worth 1 Mourn on ; yet come thou not here the while, It is but a pain to see thee smile 1 There is not a tone in our songs for thee— Home, with thy sorrows, flee ! " Ring, joyous chords ! ring out again ! But what dost thou with the revel's train ? A silvery voice through the soft air floats, But thou hast no part in the gladdening notes; There are bright young faces that pass thee by, But they fix no glance of thy wandering eye 1 Away ! there's a void in thy yearning breast, Thou weary man 1 wilt thou here find rest? Away ! for thy thoughts from the scene have fled, And the love of thy spirit is with the dead ! Thou art but more lone midst the sounds of mirth— Back to thy silent hearth 1 " Ring, joyous chords ! ring forth again ! A swifter still, and a wilder strain 1 —But thou, though a reckless mien be thine, And thy cup be crowned with the foaming wine, By the fitful bursts of thy laughter loud, By thine eye's quick flash through its troubled cloud, I know thee! it is but the wakeful fear Of a haunted bosom that brings thee here I know thee I—thou fearest the solemn night, With her piercing stars, and her deep wind's might ! There's a tone in her voice which thou fain would'st shun, For it asks what the secret soul hath done ! And thou—there's a dark weight on thine—away —Back to thy home, and pray ! " Ring, joyous chords 1 ring out, again 1 A swifter still, and a wilder strain ! And bring fresh wreaths I —we will banish all Save the free in heart from our festive hall 1 On through the maze of the fleet dance, on ! —But where are the young and the lovely ?—gone Where are the brows with the red rose crowned, And the floating forms with the bright zone bound? And tho waving locks and the flying feet, That still should be where the mirthful meet ! --They are gone—.they are fled—they are parted all ! --Alas 1 the forsaken hall 1" • Among the common-sense articles of the Dublin Review, is one strongly recommending the adoption of a Poor Law for Ireland, from which we made a long extract, which appeared in our leading columns of Mon day last. In this article the arguments advanced by Mr. O'Connell against the establishment of a compul sory system of pauper relief are impartially examined, and triumphantly refuted. The Reviewer does not mince matters. He boldly and fearlessly denounces all who are opposed to the establishment of Poor Law§ as virtual enemies to the Irish peasantry. The article on " Irish Absenteeism" is by far the ablest refutation of the IVl‘Culloch and Edinburgh Review theories upon this subject that has yet appeared. It is well intimate acquaintance and manifests in every page the most acquaintance with the science of politica'. economy—a science, by the way, of which several of its most dis tinguished professors know very little. No time could be better chosen than the present for the exposure which is here made of the system of study pursued in BOW-STREET.---(THIS DAY.) Captain George Forbes Atkinson underwent a final exa mination, charged with forging a bill of exchange for 1,0001., with intent to defraud the Hon. Captain Maule. Mr. Lane on this occasion produced the bill in ques tion, the body of which he stated to be in the hand writing of the prisoner, and the acceptance in that of the prosecutor. On examination of the bill, it was evi dent that the period for which it was drawn had been altered from three to twelve months, the upper part of the letter H in the word three being still distinctly visible. Mr. Adolphus, for the prisoner, said he should reserve his defence for another occasion. • The prisoner was then committed for trial. The office was crowded to excess during the whole ni the examination. THE STORM.-MAILS-(THIS DAY. ARRIVAL OF MAILS, 31 ST DEC. Arrived. Due. Edinburgh ... 0 1 Glasgow ...... Boston 0 1 Chester Dover 1 1 Liverpool (Evenin g Mail ...... ) 1 0 Leeds (Evening ail) ... 1 0 Manchester ... 1 0 Portsmouth 1 0 Exetcr and Falmouth Hastings Brighton 1 0 Poole Norwich 1 0 Holyhead & Dublin Worcester Gloucester Bristol 1 0 Bath... . ... . ... Ipswich and Yarmouth ...... Birmingham 1 0 Lincoln and Hu11... Stroud ' ... 1 0 Devonport Lynn Halifax 1 1 LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, DEC. 25.—A heavy gale last night and to-day from E. N. E.—Dec. 26. The gale still continues at E. N. E.—Dec. 27. The gale has subsided, and the wind is now fresh from the eastward.—Dec. 29. The Crown, Guthrie, from Rotter dam to Dundee, was totally wrecked on the Goodwin Sands on the 27th inst.—one man drowned.—Dec. 30. It is blowing strong from the East, with snow.—Sailed the Scourfield, Evans, for Bombay. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 30.—Wind moderate. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 29. —Wind N.N. E.—Arrived the Caro line, Greig, from Quebec, with loss of part of the deck load, bulwarks, windlass damaged, and lost an anchor and chain ; Haddo House, and Rochester, from Quebec ; Loyal Briton, Koire, from Richibucto, all three having been blown out of the Downs ; Fawcett (steamer), from London for Dublin ; and Hercules (steamer), from London for Cork. Off port the Die Brant, Gregorius, from Dantzic for New York. Sailed the Lady Leigh, Pearse, for Ostend ; and Comet, Walker, for London. FALMOUTH, DEC. 28. —Wind N. E., strong breezes.—Ar rived the Annabella, Anstruther, from the Mauritius—sailed 9th Oct., Cape of Good Hope, Ist ult. ; Johann Christoph, Scheil, from Bordeaux for Antwerp. Sailed the Grenada, Gardner, for Havannah ; and Chandos, Hayes, for Leghorn. MILFORD, DEC. 29.—The Konohassett, Davies, from Charleston, for Liverpool, was off Holyhead on the night of the 22d, and blown out of the Channel by the late gales, and arrived here last night with sails split ; sailed from Charleston on the 27th inst. N. B.—Captain Davies reports that Mr. Van Buren is likely to be President. The pressure on the Money Market continued. COWES, DEC. 30.—Arrived, the Java, Peters, Batavia. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 28 and 29. —Wind N. E.—The Hibernia (S.), from Dublin, is on shore at Barborough. The Thomas Tucker, Moore, bound to Antigua, has put back, after being on shore at Hoy Lake, and discharging a great part of the cargo. Sailed the Devonport, Graham, for Philadelphia; Arethusa, White, for Barbadoes ; Yeoman, Mitchinson, for Demerara ; Macon, Osborne, for Savannah ; William, Guth ridge, for Newfoundland ; and Ellen Jenkinson, Irvin, for Leghorn. The Independent, with the President's Message, has ar rived off . Cork, from New York. THE FUNDS.-(THIS I)AY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Now that the intercourse with most parts of the inte rior is opened, we may expect daily the arrival of the mails which are still due. Owing to the interruption of the mails, a number of bills of exchange have been pro tested, in consequence of the parties in London not having received advises of their being drawn. Our arrivals this morning are two French mails, one due —Ostend, one arrived, one due—Dutch, two due ; Ham burg, one due. No ship letters. The foreign exchanges improved yesterday, which caused a favourable effect on the various funds. THE FUNDS. Consols, which left off yesterday at 891 for the Open ing, continues buoyant this morning at 891 buyers ; Ex chequer Bills, 25 prem. ; India Bonds, 14 prem. ; Bank Stock, 209. Spanish Active, 191 ; Passive, 5/ 4 ; Deferred, ; Portuguese, scarce a bargain doing, 54 ; 3 per Cents., 284. ONE O' CL 0 CK. Consols have improved to 891 a for the opening ; Spa nish, 194 a. We have Antwerp papers of the 29th inst. with Dutch prices of the 27th ; Two-and-a-half per Cents., 53a ; Five per Cents., 100 5-16. The journals state that the violent storm which pre vailed (25), still continues to-day (26), from the north east. It surpasses the tempest of 29th November last, by the damage it has done, and the losses are considerable on the coast. _ _ _ HALF-PAST ONE. The Liverpool packet-ship Independence has arrived off Cork. She was to have left New York on the Bth inst., and no doubt she brings the President's Message to Con gress. A messenger from her landed at Cork. No papers han as yet been received. Consols are very buoyant, and have been done at 90 for the opening ; Reduced, 88i. Exchequer Bills also improved to 26 prem. India Bonds, 15 prem. ; Bank Stock, '209. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active, 198 ; Passive, ; Deferred, n 8 ; Portuguese, 44 ; Three per Cents., 281. Most of the South American stocks have improved, owing to their being recognised by the Spanish Government. Colombian, 24/ ; Mexican, 241 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., improved, 55i. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for tho Account, 90. PLAN OF BILBOA.—An excellent plan of the Port and Town of Bilboa, with the positions of the Christino and Carlist forces, accurately marked, has just been published by Wyld, of Charing-cross. We have examined it atten tively, and can recommend it to such of our readers as wish to make themselves thoroughly acquainted with the relative advantages of the belligerents, as far as regards their present position. the College of Maynooth. The slander c 4 111,1 O'Briens, tlle I:l‘Ghees, and the O'Sulhvans, are besi, refuted by making the people of England acquainted with the internal managemr,nit of one of the best con- ducted public seminaries in Europe. • far the ablest article in thi s N um b er i s a But ~ C't at° Educationin England." Review of the Present That it will give mortal offence to few 0 1 (1 - fashioned pedant, at the head of what arc technically called our " public schools, ?? is tertam ; but it is equally mue that it will make a salutary impression upon the minds of all persons belonging to the middle classes of society. The following is an eXtta.i.:t from it : " The great vices of our existing system arc manifest— we trust also they are not invincible. We do not begin sufficiently early—what we teach is generally iiselt , ss—if we teach, we do not teach long enough. We have abundanee of mis-education, and our education is too short as well as too slight. The child is not taken up in time ;it is not the child of nature or of God that we have to deal with, but the child of man. On the plea that the infant mind is not susceptible of education, we allow the infant to mis-educate itself. We take it soiled and profaned, rather than in the original brightness of its angelic nature. We prefer to work a miracle, rather than to follow out the work of God. We consider children, as if they were always to continue children ; but those same children whom we so triflingly treat, form the materials of the future state. Out of those groups of prattlers are yet to come forth constitutions, per haps revolutions ; in all cases, the destinies of yet unborn millions of men. We complain of the tendency of the present age to innovation—we iook upon the entire species as in a state of constant hunger and thirst after anarchy. If this be the public will, we doubt not it easily find the opportunity and power to gratify it. The o;21v sure course is to alter that which may guide the will. The will of man is not sufficiently educated at present. It is the re sult of ideas, thoughts, passions, fixed into habits—these habits we neglect to fix. We send the child into action with no will, or a bad will ; we do not create in him a strong will, and a just will. It is an absurd complaint that with such a lever we can raise nothing. It is an unjust complaint against the creature we have mis-fashioned, and against the education which we did not use. If there be disturbance in the social machine, it is because we knew not how before it was put together to shape our machinery. We carry no forethought—we see no future—we dwell within ' the body of this death' of present things. No wonder that vice should be born from such teaching—that ignorance, and not knowledge, should follow. " Another cause of the inefficiency of our education, is, with few exceptions, its inapplicability. We have seen how amply this defect has been remedied at Hackney- Wick ; nothing is there done but with a reference to the future position of the pupil. Not so with us. The majo jority of our systems are absolutely aimless : take them at what grade we may, our schools spend their energies on ob jects of quite secondary importance to the pupil, while they omit principals. We look to the Universities for our future statesmen. How much of state knowledge, in the shape of the moral or political sciences, is communicated there ? Is history, are the laws of our own or other countries, is social economy, is constitutional instruction, the great com ponents of their course ? The classics and the mathema tics divide the empire of the young student's mind; they send him into the world informed but not educated, fitted only for one state, and a state, too, which is rapidly passing away. There was a time when a sermon would not be listened to unless slashed and furbelowed with Latin quota tions, which no one understood, A flock would not move for any one less than a " Latiner." The Houses of our Legislature exacted a similar tribute. A tag of classicality was the Shibboleth of the " set." In no other form could a rising young man make his first debutant bow to the public, than in a verse from Horace or Virgil. The country gentlemen reverenced affar off, and listened to avoid scandal. But these fooleries are dying. Men have the pressure of stirring times, and an earnest and intelligent population about them ; they must look to something more real than these puerile elegancies. A mere measurer of trochaics and anapaests is not precisely the man to reset the disjointed state. Not that we at all undervalue classical studies, — far from it ; we venerate them, we cherish them. We agree with Schwart, that, next to the Scriptures, the study of the great models of Greek antiquity is of all others the most calculated to raise and ennoble the mind. We believe that its lessons pass from the memory into the understanding, and from thence into the character and conduct of man ; vvi , believe that, rightly worshipped, in no narrow and pitiful scholastic sense, it will raise us into something of that ideal' which was the aspiration of the great at all times, and which cannot be too much encouraged as a de fence against the Mammonite philosophy of the present. But this is a study not to be taught from a' Gradus ad Parnassum,'—it is a spirit not vouchsafed with a Bachelor ship of Arts. It is not with Latin or Greek it will stop. It will fly for congenial food to the great spirits of our own tongue. It will read the ancients in the moderns. Bacon, and Milton, and Locke, and Taylor, and Hooker, these will also be its classics, out of such study of Greek and La tin will also grop an English mind. But is this the cha racter, the tendency of our actual classical instruction ? Is it not content with the husks of learning ? does it not glory in the masks and manacles of words ? How few who do not admire the frame rather than the picture, and adore the veil instead of the sanctuary. Even as linguists they are poor ; for ever on a treadmill, they never advance. Our best commentators are German, our best Latin writers have studied abroad. Is it worth spending the best hours of life to do such trifles so extremely ill ? Such men are not educated to raise the mind or character of any nation. In the world, as in the college, they live a life of shadows and phrases. We want legislation, and not pedantry : rulers, and not academicians. " The existence of our middle classes is essentially prac tical—' real'—as the Germans would term it ;so also ought to be their education. It is anything but that. If low, it ends with reading, writing, and cyphering, and keeping ac counts ; that is, with the key, but nothing else. if high, it is a grammar school—latin, and latin, and nothing more. But a head manufacturer may not read twenty words of that language all his life, it lies in his mind as lumber ; it not only fills but oppresses ; he spends time and labour, and he gets half knowledge, or no knowledge, or the know, ledge which he does not want ; what he does want he can not get. He has to deal with all sorts of results, chemical mechanical, mineralogical—what does he know of any one of them ? His trade to him is art-magic, or mere mechani cal routine ; he blunders often, to be sure, on the right, and calls it good luck. But there is no good luck for the in structed ; he sees, as it were, in the distance his discovery, and goes on to it by slow but certain steps. He does not bring out of his situation or means half what they might produce ; the least degree of appropriate education would have doubled his power ; but where are we to look for it ? In this commercial nation, where are we to seek for a truly commercial school ? " Our lower classes arc if possible worse off. Schools of Industry, Hackney-Wicks, there doubtless are—but how easily can they be counted ! It is the education of this or that society, not of the nation. The lower classes, for the most part, are born labourers, and are likely to die labour ers : a noble destiny—a most bountiful dispensation, if they were only taught to think that it was such. It is the using of one's being—the ennobling consciousness that we have power—that we have faculties and limbs, and can make them produce—that we can strive, and can succeed. No man is exempted from labuur, of one kind or other, or if lie be, he is to be pitied—he is doomed to a curse. But are these the maxims upon which our popular education is founded ? Are these the lessons not preached, but infused ? Does the child enjoy, or turn to true value, either labour or relaxation ? Is he taught equally to venerate the alphabet and the plough ? Is the soil and his own mind placed side by side, as the source of all manly pleasures and fortunes ? Does he know, on leaving the school, how to cultivate either? Is lie taught to raise his physical existence beyond the scale of his forefathers, to fill up its intervals by mental enjoyments ? Is he taught the duties of his state ? with general ideas of vice and virtue, has he any idea of the peculiar complexion of the vices and virtues of his situation ? He regards the tillage of the land as a penalty, and reading and writing, as an instrument only which may enable him some day to escape from it. In the interval he is an indo lent labourer, and a discontented man. Do not say that in this case, his intellect has been over-cultivated at the expense of the body—no such thing. Both have been allowed to lie fallow. Intellect is better exercised on things than words ; a boy who has got the habit of observation, precise ideas upon what he sees and hears, who knows how to bring his stock into use whenever required, is a far better culti vator of his intellect than the glibbest reader and writer in the world ; leave him his reading and writing, and nothing else, and you will only make him a secretary for Captain Rock. We confess our ideas of an educated pea santry are very different ; they are those of Hackney-Wick : we should like to see their " learning" in their manner of turning up the soil and boiling a pot, their " virtues" in the Christian peace and honesty of a comfortable cottage.home. No wonder that the opposite course should have jostled the classes against each other, no wonder there should be vanity, and discontent, and disorder. Instead of simply but sub stantially clothing him, we send him our. cast-off frippery, and set him up to be stared at by his fellows. The labourer wants education but in the sense of the labourer ; he wants a coin that will pass ; teach him to love his situation by making it a situation to be loved, and you will not require bayonets to force or keep hint down. It is not the Co ercive Statute nor the Poor Law which is order, but every man in his right place, and every man endeavouring to make it so. This is not half so difficult as what we are so obsti nately pursuing at present ; we are acting in complete con tradiction to circumstances and the human mind." PRINCE NAPOLEON LOUIS BONA- PARTE. TO rill: .;:01-TOR OF THE SUN. SlB,—The agreement t ,f design manifested by the public journa!s in misrepresenting 'RI, acts and intentions of en unfortunate Prince, impose upon me the duty of refuting the unjust accusations that have been ,;:rought against hint. It was not under the name of Napo 11., nor of Na poleon lll.—it was not under the title of Emperor," that the Prince Napoleon Louis Bonaparte pres e e s 'ed himself to the people and army of France. The Prince ti,,rew himself upon the chances of fortune, to re-conquer the rights' of the peopk.', not to re-establish his own--to re-conquer those rights of national sovereignty, twice wrested from France- - in I tils , by foreign bayonets— in l tt,3o, by domestic intrigues. Faithful to the rnetno4.y of the Emperor Napoleon, his antic and grandfilther by adoption—like him taking for bis motto " Every thing for the French people," the Prince Napoleon felt that his life belonged to France, and that the name lie bore amiiped to him the mission of restoring to the people the exereLse of their legitimate privileges. His Proclamations (which tame did not permit to be printed) addressed to the People, to the Army, and to the City of Strasburgh—Proclamations no;' in the possession of the Government, but which shall soon be given to the world-r -are filled with this idea. The object of his enterprise is there clearly explained. It was an am lieul to the people, calling upon them to resume their sovereignty, and to de cide in a great national congress on the form of Government they ought to adopt. How, then, while proclaiming the principle of the sove reignty of the people, could he anticipate the decision of the people ? How could he clothe himself with a title that had not been awarded to him by the nation ? The Prince, in all his Proclamations, assumed no other title than that of Prince Napoleon Louis Bonaparte. This was the character in which he was recognized by the 4th artillery ; and when Colonel Vaudrey, in presenting him in front of his regiment, asked the soldiers if they would commence a great and glo rious revolution with the nephew of the Emperor—whether they-would conquer or die in the cause of tin people—the mingled cries of " Long live Liberty," " Long live Napo poleon," " Long live the Emperor," which responded to this appeal, were but the expression of an enthusiasm awakened by reminiscences which are associated with two great epochs in the history of our country. All that has hitherto been published on this event is un true. In those statements, put forward by persons inte rested in distorting the character of the enterprize, all is ca lumny and falsehood, like the pretended apish foppery of as suming, the dress of the Emperor. The Prince wore the uniform of an officer of artillery—a blue coat, like that of the licole Polytechnique, and not a green one. Like the officers of iris suite, he also wore the hat of a Staff-Officer , similar to those worn by the whole army. Fate was againsi him, and the Prince fell the victim of his own courage and of his ardent love for France. He failed, when his prudent daring had overcome the greatest difficulties of his enterprise, through the wretched local ar rangements which, by an inconceivable fatality, prevailed, and by means of which orders which had been given were left unexecuted. Unfortunate, he will submit to his lot with the calmness and dignity of his uncle, for his mind was prepared for reverses as well as for success ; and when the feelings roused by this abortive attempt shall have passed away—when all the facts connected with it shall be pub lished—the world may take an interest in one who has dis played courage so undaunted—may not withhold its sym pathy for good qualities at present unknown.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your very obedient servant, FIALIN DE PERSIGNY, Aide-de-Camp to Prince Napoleon-Louis on the day the 30th October. London, Dec. 24, 1836. IRELAND. DUBLIN, DEc. 2d. LONGFORD ELECTION. The snow has delayed all communications from - I.4ongford exeept the mail bags, which have been forwarded specially. At the close of last night's poll the numbers were— White Fox Majority for White The polling was by tallies, and the Pilot reports that the popular I ;arty are confident of success. The Mail, of course, affects to be satisfied with the result of yesterday's polling, and doe, not scruple to affirm that it surpasses a ny thing it could have a nticipated on the first day, and under such circumstances, atis 4 affords an assurance as to the ul timate result. In the sam,l organ of Orangeism we find the following no doubt strictly Veracious and impartial statement : " Our election (writes a LongforL l correspondent of the Mail) commenced this day under circu mstances of excite ment such as were never before witnessel in this county. To describe the scene in and about the Uo,ert-house is im possible. When order was in some measure restored the proceedings commenced. Mr. White was proposed by Mr. Aehmuty—late a member of the Brunswick ,Clubs, and seconded by H. B. Sleator. Mr. Fox was put in nomina tion by Lovell Edgeworth, Esq., in a speech of great force and ability, and seconded by Samuel Blacken, Esq. The yells of the rabble, set on by the priests, nearly rendere d these gentlemen inaudible." It is reported that two men have been shot dead, and two or three others wounded, by the armed Orange ban ditti assembled under the Lefroy banners. Wherever Orangemen assemble in strength it is a very probable oc currence, therefore we do not absolutely discredit the report. A letter from Mr. Beaumont, addressed to Mr. O'Con nell, and one also written by Sir William Molesworth to the General Association, appear in the Irish journals of to-day. The length to which the communication of the last-named honourable and patriotic gentleman extends precludes its publication 'by us to-day. Sir William's letter is dated from Bodmin, 21st December, and begins, thus I beg leave to forward you a subscri p tion 201. towards the land of the Irish National Association. in order to show my i i ;larty approval of the resolutions to which the Association bizs agreed with regard to the Irish Church. I perceive by the newspapers that a Mr. Mansfield has thought proper tt: denounce me before the Association as a Tory-Radical. if by that ter m he means that, whilst professing Radical opinioiZs I am intentionally pursuing a line of conduct which I know would be m ost advantageous to Tory principles, and which I consider would conduce to the ultimate success of that party, then , indeed, the charge is a grave one ; and if it is well founded, it would brand me with a mark of indelible infamy. If Mr. Mansfield merely means that I am pursuing a c ourse of which some Tories approve, and of which ho disap proves, then, in truth, the accusation is one of no moment for evidently it is not without the bounds of possibilit), that both the Tories and himself are utterly in the wrong% Sir William then shows that he " has the same end in view as the Association has—namely, full and compete justice to Ireland from the British Legislature." The following is from Mr. Beaumont's letter to 111 r. O'Connell, dated the 26th instant :-- " Sir—l am on the point of writing a second address to my constituents, in order to acquaint them with the details, and interest them more deeply in the success of the Irish question. Before committing myself with them by an irre vocable opinion upon this most important, and, as I think , hitherto misunderstood subject, I desire to be publicly )I'l - by you if you coincide with me in the conviction that the sole cause of the unnatural state of Ireland lies i ll this—that religion is made a point of honour between. Catholics and Protestants. As a Protestant, whose fed" logs are not voconnected with Ireland, and whose sytnP" - thies for her distN.ssed condition are far from being unrea#l, I assert deliberately tLat such is my conviction. * • If you, Sir, are of opLiion that religion is thus cons!: dered a point of honour in tijs unhappy country, I shalt proceed immediately to call upo:i my countrymen, w ho at present are also yours, to put an er;:ctual stop to this be r; rible position of affairs. The honour of their respeet i i _ Churches shall cease to be the subject ol" internal and Ireland shall no longer be deluged wit the blood of victims, slain on the 'altar of religious bit= unchrist"l" re honour. If Irishmen have in their nature that intuit? P ., m .. the dilection for receiving and giving satisfaction whi,• ll j 5 posed to them, they have sufficient incentives and etn l3 fair subjects with other people. But religion shall not, I can assist in preventing its continuance, be any longer tile unholy subject of dispute. Let Irishmen fight among then,: selves, if they prefer that amusement to any other, up o " any other subject under the sun ; but a s a Christian, a P(3.- litician, and a man, I protest against their r i gh t to kill eaell,, other for their religion .—I beg the favour of an early reply:o THE WEATHER.—The last four d a y s have been ti s , severest experienced Dublin fo r a lon g time. Se ver ef vessels have drifted, d the squall yesterday "as Iliarin s: the heaviest ever known in the neighbourh ood of g town. TITHES.—Mr: Otway Cave states , that having resistel the impost of tithes to the very last stage, lie will now rneeit the claim, rather than that bloodshed shou ld be the rese` of collision with his tenants. Although the Earl of the effects of the severe paralytic' seizure he sustained a feW years ago, his general health is much improved. The Earl and Countess of Verulam gave a t ball 0 ! 1 Kinoston is still suffering from Tuesday night at Gorhambury, near St. Alban's, he in tations including all the principal families. 'The attendaa.eo was, however, comparatively thin, in consequence of the in clement weather. The Earl of Clare has been on a visit to John Croker, Esq., of B a lli naguar d. The Earl is expect ed at Bath in a few days, wh ere his Countess and Lady Isabella Fitzgibbon have arrived from Mount Shannon. According to the Courier Fr an c ais, the King of Belgium is expected shortly at Paris. I